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Dum Dum Bullet
12+ albums
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about
Dum Dum Bullet started playing as a band in 1979, in Le Mans, a city in the West of France. Two members, Jimi (bass, vocals) and Paulo (drums) from a former rock band called Bloody Mary, which had released 2 singles (“No one is real” and “Killer Boogie”), asked a third player Jean-Luc (guitar) to form a new band. Their aim was to form a “hard punk” band, and indeed they had always been attracting a very punk rock audience up to the end. Originally, the band was made up of a guitarist, Jean-Luc Davy, a bass guitarist, Jimmy Heudes and Paulo who played the drums. Dum Dum was born. They made a series of concerts in the region around Le Mans, and they progressively gained some measure of notoriety elsewhere. They recorded their first demo in 1981 in their local studio located in the village where they lived. They released their first bravura songs such as “qui t’as permis d’aimer” (Who allowed you to love?), “no prisoner”, “hot thigs”, “wicked typist”, “rock and roll is here to stay” and a powerful song called “pense à nous quand tu mets ton doigt” (“think about us when you use your finger”), whose first version was dedicated to a girlfriend in jail. A few hard core fans started following them, some of whom became very famous. In 1983, their first single was released “emmène moi en enfer” (“take me to hell”), then “rock revolution”, self-produced and recorded at Studio 1 in Paris. The single was in French and recorded in one day. Though the record is now collector’s edition, they
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